Category Archives: Worship

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  A Festival of Lessons & Carols featuring Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols

  Posted on December 10, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Worship, Youth

  Sunday, Dec.14, 10:00 am In the Sanctuary and livestreamed Please join us on Sunday, December 14 at 10:00 am. for First Congregational Church’s annual Festival of Lessons and Carols, a beloved tradition from England where God’s word is proclaimed and contemplated in a special sequence of readings, prayers, poetry, choral anthems and congregational carols and […]

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  Christmas Pageant

  Posted on December 9, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Volunteer Opportunities, Worship, Youth

  Sunday, Dec. 21st 10 AM Share in the love, hope, and joy of the Christmas story as the children & youth stage the annual Christmas Pageant during the worship service on Sunday, December 21st. Please sign up for one of the many roles here. Walk on angels, shepherds, and animals are also welcome. Contact Maggie with […]

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  Cuetlaxochitl (Poinsettia) Dedications

  Posted on December 9, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Community, Giving, Health and Wellness, Latest News, Spiritual Practice, Worship

  Orders are due by Wed. Dec. 10, 2025 If you would like to donate a chancel Christmas plant as a memorial, or in honor of someone, please fill out this form. You can mail a check to the church office, use Venmo, or PayPal. (Please indicate “Christmas plants” in the memo field). There are special Flower Offering […]

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  This Week in Worship: 2nd Sunday in Advent (Dec 7, 2025)

  Posted on December 5, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Worship

  This Sunday, we celebrate the Second Week of Advent and light the Candle of Peace. Our lectionary readings come from the Prophet Isaiah and the Letter to the Romans. We will consider the language of Advent and the peace we can find in this message: “Then a shoot will sprout from the stump of Jesse; […]

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  Join Us for Hanging of the Greens Worship (November 30, 2025)

  Posted on November 26, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Worship, Youth

  Hanging of the Greens November 30, 10:00 AM Lighting of the 1st Advent candle, the candle of Hope At Advent, we enter into a 4-week season of waiting and preparing for Christ’s coming at Christmas. It’s a season of evergreens and wreaths, of lights and colors, of gifts and sacred story. Join us on Sunday for […]

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  Join us for Worship on Thanksgiving Sunday (November 23, 2025)

  Posted on November 21, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Worship

  This Sunday is the last Sunday on the church calendar before we begin the church year at Advent next Sunday. We’ll celebrate the coming of Thanksgiving with old familiar Thanksgiving hymns and begin turning our attention toward the advent of Advent. We do this by reading in the Gospel of Luke, the birth announcement of John (the one […]

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  Join Us for Pledge Sunday Worship (November 16, 2025)

  Posted on November 14, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Worship

  As we come another week closer to the start of Advent on November 30th, we hear Jesus speaking in apocalyptic terms of trials and tribulations to come, encouraging the disciples to endure through difficult times (Luke 21:5-19). It’s all pointing to the climax of salvation history, at the end of all things, just before we […]

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  Join Us for Worship This Sunday: November 9, 2025

  Posted on November 7, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Worship

  This Sunday is the second week of our stewardship campaign, Walking in Love, inspired by the ministries of Jesus and the prophets in Scripture and the paths of love, justice, and peace they trod for us. We will explore how Walking in Love and Walking in Truth go hand-in-hand in this week’s Scripture passages, Psalm […]

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  Stewardship Sunday Worship (November 2, 2025)

  Posted on October 30, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Giving, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Worship

  It’s Stewardship Sunday and the beginning of our annual fall pledge drive. As we worship together we’ll consider the Apostle Paul’s encouragement in his letter to the Ephesians to “walk in love as Christ loved us” and how that speaks to the life and works of the church. It’s communion Sunday too, so we’ll also […]

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  Join Us This Week in Worship (October 26, 2025)

  Posted on October 24, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Worship

  We’ll come back into the sanctuary and back on-line for our worship service this Sunday after a beautiful outdoor service last week for the Blessing of the Animals. It was wonderful to be with our community in that way with all our adorable and adored animals. This week in worship our scripture leads us into a […]

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